..The mechanism for this association remains unknown. Lower maternal folate level has been implicated in the etiology of NTDs in general. The association of BMI with folate level, however, has not been investigated...

..To examine associations between cognitive deficits and persistent significant depressive symptoms at baseline and 2- and 4-year follow-ups in a sample of community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults...

Major depression in community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults: prevalence and 2- and 4-year follow-up symptoms

..I assessed recent trends in prevalence of any contact with mental health professionals and nonuse of mental health care or prescription medications owing to cost among adults with significant psychological distress...

Psychotic-like experiences and interpersonal violence in the general population

..This study aimed to examine the association of psychotic-like experiences with violence in a general population sample...

National patterns in antidepressant treatment by psychiatrists and general medical providers: results from the national comorbidity survey replication

Ramin MojtabaiDepartment of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Medical Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10003, USAJ Clin Psychiatry 69:1064-74. 2008

..The objective of this study was to compare patient characteristics and treatment patterns of adults in the United States treated with antidepressant medications by psychiatrists and other medical providers...

..The acute and transient psychotic disorders (ATPD) in ICD-10 advanced the nosology of remitting psychoses with acute onset. But the proposed criteria for ATPD--especially in regard to duration--are tentative and need to be validated...

..The study compared the neuropsychological functioning of patients with first-admission schizophrenia with that of patients with first-admission psychotic affective disorders...

Use of VA aftercare following military discharge among patients with serious mental disorders

Ramin MojtabaiDepartment of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York City 10463, USAPsychiatr Serv 54:383-8. 2003

..This study examined the use of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) aftercare services among patients with serious mental disorders who were discharged from the military after a first admission to a Department of Defense (DoD) hospital...

..To better understand why not, we examined the correlates of various stages of help-seeking, including perceived need for professional help, seeking such help, and from which professionals participants sought help...

Reliability of the life chart schedule for assessment of the long-term course of schizophrenia

..53 to 0.99), quality of experience (kappa ranged from 0.46 to 0. 92) and long-term time trends (kappa ranged from 0.66 to 0.94). The LCS can be used to obtain reliable ratings of the long-term course of schizophrenia in multiple domains...

Neuropsychological function and dysfunction in schizophrenia and psychotic affective disorders

Bushra NazDepartment of Psychiatry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8790, USASchizophr Res 62:51-8. 2003

..atypical cases of affective disorders, (2). cases of schizophrenia in early course, or (3). a heterogeneous group of disorders including a subgroup with benign course and outcome which maintains this diagnosis in the long term...

Long-term course of acute brief psychosis in a developing country setting

E SusserColumbia University New York State Psychiatric Institute, USABr J Psychiatry 173:226-30. 1998

..This study in North India compared acute brief psychosis--defined by acute onset, brief duration and no early relapse--with other remitting psychoses, over a 12-year course and outcome...

Weekend prescribing practices and subsequent seclusion and restraint in a psychiatric inpatient setting

..To examine whether sexual offenders against children have fewer characteristics associated with impulsive-aggression and more characteristics associated with aberrant sexual arousal than do sexual offenders against adolescents and adults...

..The authors examined the clinical characteristics and 48-month illness course of cases of nonaffective acute remitting psychosis and described the classification of these cases in the DSM-IV system...

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of four treatment modalities for substance disorders: a propensity score analysis

Ramin MojtabaiDepartment of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, USAHealth Serv Res 38:233-59. 2003

..To assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of four treatment modalities for substance abuse...

Age at onset, childhood psychopathology, and 2-year outcome in psychotic bipolar disorder

Gabrielle A CarlsonDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794 8790, USAAm J Psychiatry 159:307-9. 2002

..The relationships of age at onset and childhood psychopathology to 2-year clinical and functional outcomes in first-admission patients with bipolar I disorder were examined...

Are there racial differences in the way patients with psychotic disorders are treated at their first hospitalization?

..Characteristic features of the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) occur with remarkable consistency in different cultural settings. The content of symptoms, however, seems to vary across cultures...

Use of the Persian language version of the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (ATQ) in depressed Iranian women